Valley artist, Ron Moore of Austintown, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, is pushing for lawmakers to implement a patient registry to better treat people with neurological diseases.

Senator Mike Rulli is working along with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to make Ohio the fifth state to have this shared data and said it would be a game-changer for people like Moore.

Moore was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2004. He's overcome a lot of battles and now he's pushing to fight the disease on a wider level with the help of Rulli, who's sponsoring Senate Bill 99 to implement a Parkinson's Disease Registry, which is a database to be shared with doctors and researchers.

"I can give in and let Parkinson's win but I refuse to do that," Moore said, "Giving up is not an option."

Moore is not alone. An estimated 37,000 people in Ohio have Parkinson's, but a registry would bring more accuracy in those numbers and better treatment.

"It's really nice when you have 37,000 patients that can share all through stories and all their trials and tribulations and not only that, but also reflecting on different things as far as medicines, which medicines work best which medicines would have side affects," Rulli said. 

The registry will also show areas in the state where there are clusters of people with Parkinson's.

Researchers can work to indicate triggers for Parkinson's from those areas which can be related to exposures like harmful toxins and chemicals from certain professions. 

"Being able to have this database is going to enable researchers to look at those types of clusters and help researchers develop strategies to not only prevent it but create treatments," Ted Thompson, Senior VP of Public Policy of the Michael J. Fox Foundation said.